BRISTOL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
The Bristol Storytelling Festival is a week-long series of events to celebrate, enjoy and promote stories and storytelling, which is being held during National Storytelling Week from 30 January to 7 February 2010. Now in it’s fourth year, the festival will feature a variety of spellbinding performances across the city where children, families and adult audiences can enjoy the magic of storytelling. There will also be opportunity during the festival for people to get involved and tell stories themselves.
Last year over 1,000 people attended the storytelling events during the festival. This year promises even more – with new storytellers, specially commissioned events and exciting new venues to build on the successes of the last three years.
Highlights of the festival include spooky ghost tales and chilling music at Tales From The Crypt at St John-in-the-Wall Church on 30 Jan, the Bristol Story Slam on 4 Feb, where storytellers compete for the 2010 Golden Yarn Spinner Award, and the Storytelling Half Marathon, a unique event in the UK comprising 13 hours of continuous storytelling in different spaces around the Bristol Old Vic Theatre on 6 Feb.
Full programme and details can be found at www.bristolstoryfest.co.uk
